metaverse
noun
meta·verse
ˈme-tə-ˌvərs 
plural metaverses
1
computing
: a persistent virtual (see virtual sense 2) environment that allows access to and interoperability of multiple individual virtual realities
To its proponents, the metaverse is the natural evolution of the internet. They envisage a sprawling network of interconnected virtual worlds for such diverse activities as gaming, watching live entertainment, … and collaborating on design projects.—
Edd Gent
Edd Gent
also
: any of the individual virtual environments that make up a metaverse
Metaverses are immersive three-dimensional virtual worlds in which people interact as avatars with each other and with software agents, using the metaphor of the real world but without its physical limitations. —Alanah Davis et al.
Alanah Davis et al. 2
cosmology
: the hypothetical combination of all co-existing or sequentially existing universes compare multiverse
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Now, the Big Tech company is focusing its metaverse efforts on smart glasses.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Then in 2021, the company tried to reorient its brand around the metaverse, which failed to reshape the internet in the way Zuckerberg had envisioned.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Kuki, supposedly eighteen years old and from the metaverse, resembles an airbrushed Scandinavian Airlines flight attendant.
—Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Avatar fashion is becoming the lingua franca of the metaverse, and nowhere is this clearer than on Roblox, where players spend heavily to shape their digital identities.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Then in 2021, the company tried to reorient its brand around the metaverse, which failed to reshape the internet in the way Zuckerberg had envisioned.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Kuki, supposedly eighteen years old and from the metaverse, resembles an airbrushed Scandinavian Airlines flight attendant.
—Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Avatar fashion is becoming the lingua franca of the metaverse, and nowhere is this clearer than on Roblox, where players spend heavily to shape their digital identities.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Metaverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metaverse. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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